Kenton County
A yard whose name identifies neither town it could belong to
One row is attached here: a rail yard under CSX, 0.75 miles from this centroid, carrying an old rail location name. Its coordinate falls inside Taylor Mill, an incorporated city that holds a page of its own, while the row is attached to this place by nearest-place fallback.
Ordinarily a name is the thing that resolves that. Elsewhere in this research a facility name has settled whether two rows were one place, or shown that a yard was named for a city 250 miles off, or given a district away entirely.
Here it does neither job. The name identifies neither the town the row is attached to nor the town its coordinate sits in, so it supplies no correction at all. It is a rail location name and it refers to a rail location, which is exactly as much as it says.
And nobody published what moves through it
That leaves the same gap this research keeps reporting honestly. The commodities handled at the Decoursey yard could not be determined from any source read for this work, the Kentucky statewide rail and freight plans included.
Nor is the coordinate a gate. Every rail-yard row in this dataset records the mean of a track polyline’s vertices rather than a surveyed point, and a line that runs between this place and Taylor Mill can put its mean in either of them — which is how a row ends up attached 0.75 miles from one centroid and located inside another town.
What is left is a real description with the uncertainty attached: a CSX facility on the edge of two adjoining northern Kentucky towns, with drayage work around it and no published account of the traffic.
Kentucky weight law
What a truck here worked under
None of that reaches the statute, which applies by what is in the body rather than by which town a register chose.
Kentucky gives a ten per cent tolerance on its axle weight provisions to vehicles engaged exclusively in hauling crushed stone, fill dirt and rock, soil, bulk sand, coal, phosphate muck, asphalt, concrete, solid waste, tankage or animal residues, livestock, feed for livestock or poultry, and agricultural products — except on the interstate system. Short drayage between a yard and a customer is exactly the work that keeps the allowance, because it rarely needs a limited-access road. General freight in a box body never had it to begin with.
The larger coal-haul figure belongs to a separate certified network — 90,000 lb on one steering axle plus two tandem axles with a five per cent tolerance — and that certified road list was not read for this work.
Kentucky’s posted-bridge list was not located either, so nothing here says whether postings bind on the roads around this yard.
KRS 189.222(1)(c) and KRS 177.9771. Information, not legal advice.
Kentucky paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
Beyond the weight, the paperwork is that one sentence.
Everything after it is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement; where one never existed there is a bonded route. Neither stops a sale.
The statute brands a vehicle salvage when parts and labour to rebuild it to pre-accident condition and legal operation exceed 75 per cent of its retail value, with the cost of reinstalling a deployed airbag system excluded from that calculation — a flat percentage rather than a formula.
And on a truck standing at somebody else’s yard the clock is 45 days, after which, with reasonable or agreed storage or towing charges unpaid, it may be sold to pay them. Liens are recorded through the county clerk here and may be transmitted electronically.
KRS 186A.520 on branding, KRS 186A.195 on liens, and KRS ch. 376 on storage and towing. Information, not legal advice.
What we buy here
None of that narrows what we will look at. Day cabs and road tractors off the drayage work, box trucks and straight trucks, dump trucks and aggregate haulers, flatbeds, rollbacks, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.
Box trucks and straight trucks are not a northern Kentucky thing in particular — they are everywhere. They are on the list because we buy them here too.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them. The yard 0.75 miles out, the streets between here and Taylor Mill and the rest of Kenton County are simply where a lot of them turn up.
On collection: we come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow with nobody coming out at all, or you bring it to us. A town line running past a rail yard is not a complication we pass on to you.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Fairview
- Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Rust is not a disqualifier.
- My address says one town and the yard says another.That is this whole page. The coordinate for that yard lands inside Taylor Mill while the row is attached here, 0.75 miles from this centroid. We buy on either side of it.
- It only ever did short runs to the yard.Then hours beat miles by a wide margin. Short drayage in a built-up Kenton County means traffic, repeated coupling and constant low-speed work, and that lands on the clutch, the brakes and the suspension first.
- What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. A lost title has a counter replacement, and where none ever existed there is a bonded route.
- How am I paid?Cash or electronic payment. That is the whole list.
- How far out do you come?All of Kenton County and the northern Kentucky towns around it. We also buy trucks with nobody coming out at all and arrange the tow.
Why people call
Those are the practical questions, and the reasons behind them are mostly personal. Retiring. A medical that didn’t go the way it used to. A contract that ended and took the run with it. A truck standing at the back of a yard since somebody stopped driving it, costing insurance every month it isn’t turning a wheel.
It reads the same across Kenton County, whether the truck worked the yard 0.75 miles out, ran general freight through Taylor Mill and the towns around it, or did neither.
Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.
Kentucky weight and title rules read from the Kentucky Revised Statutes in August 2026 — verify with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet before acting on them. Yard operator, place containment and coordinate provenance from the central node list; the containing city is recorded as holding its own page and the attachment is recorded as a nearest-place fallback. What the yard handles could not be determined from any source read, and the row’s name identifies neither the attached town nor the containing one, so it supplies no correction. Kentucky’s posted-bridge list was not located and the certified coal-haul road list was not read.